Capture Visible (Field Lines ?)

[Stokbroka]

Hi All

I am struggling with this capture stuff. I have read articles at digest, digitalfaq, doom9 and tomshardware about capture and my head is about to explode. After reading all the articles I basically deciced that It was best to capture at 352 x 576 as I am in OZ and we use the PAL system.

The problem I am getting is that I can see the Field Lines.( I think that is what it is called.) when previewing the captured video. I am going crazy with this.

When I do a scan with PVAInstrumento on the captured file. I have a 352 x 576 file captured at 6800000bps. I would have thought this to be more than enough bps for VHS.

I have also tried a capture at Full D1 and 9000000bps and still the same result.

Funny thing is that where there is alot of movement in the video it is noticable but when just view scenery it is ok.

I have tried PowerDirector 3 and this gives the problems.
I have tried with Studio 9 and forget about it. (AV sync probs and pic no better)
I have tried WinfastPVR and it cuts out at 3gb (Weird ?)

Are most people capturing MPG or AVI. Just curious about this. Maybe I need to try to capture as AVI, But would not have thought I should have to do this.

I have an 2400 Athlon, Winfast A310 Card, 512 Mb RAM, 70GB IDE Drive formatted NTFS.

Thanks for any help guys and sorry about the long post.

[non-linear]

Interlace lines are normal when viewing on a computer, as computer monitors use progressive scanning. It doesn't matter how high a bitrate you use, interlacing is a fact of television.

Have you tried watching this on your TV? If you're seeing the lines on your TV, then you may have a reversed field order issue. You could deinterlace, but you'll reduce the quality of the video when played back on your TV.

If you just plan on watching this on your computer, you can deinterlace the video.

[Stokbroka]

Thanks Non-Linear

I finally found an article on this that made some sense to me and it is exactly as you described.

Cheers